BJJ News — mma

Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It

Kron Gracie Says Rickson Stopped Speaking to Him for Years Because He Used Boxing In MMA — The Gentle Art Family Was Not Gentle About It

Rickson Gracie built his reputation on one idea: jiu-jitsu beats everything. Against bigger men, against strikers, against wrestlers who didn't yet know what a closed guard could do to their arms.
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Gabriel Bonfim Defeats Belal Muhammad 50-45

Gabriel Bonfim Defeats Belal Muhammad 50-45

Gabriel Bonfim didn't just beat Belal Muhammad on June 6 at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. All three rounds, all three judges: 50-45, 50-45, 50-45.
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Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

Jungle Fight 149: When Matheus Araujo Held the RNC Past the Tap—and Why His Excuse About His Late Mother Still Didn't Make It Okay

When this went down on April 25 at São Paulo's Ginásio do Ibirapuera, it seemed like a straightforward submission gone wrong. Matheus "The Monster" Araujo caught Anderson Nascimento in a rear-naked choke inside three minutes of Round 1 at Jungle Fight 149.
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Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

Bryce Mitchell's 8-Second Arm-Triangle at UFC Fight Night

That's all Bryce Mitchell needed to remind the combat sports world why we stare at our phones at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday waiting for preliminary fight results.
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Steveson Shuts Down DC's Warning on Jones Coaching

Steveson Shuts Down DC's Warning on Jones Coaching

Gable Steveson thinks Jon Jones is perfect. Not "good." Not "great." Not "an underrated technical mind." Perfect.
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Bernardo Faria Defends Buchecha And Vieira After UFC Vegas — Not Failure' From The Only Two-Time Worlds Absolute Champ Who Never Tried MMA

Bernardo Faria Defends Buchecha And Vieira After UFC Vegas — Not Failure' From The Only Two-Time Worlds Absolute Champ Who Never Tried MMA

The morning after Buchecha got two-punched into next week and Rodolfo Vieira got out-cardioed by an unranked light heavyweight, Bernardo Faria sat down to defend them both. It's a defensible defense.
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UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje at the White House

UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje at the White House

Professional combat sports stopped being sport and became pure spectacle. UFC Freedom 250 at the White House is the moment that stopped being subtle.
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Buchecha's UFC Collapse: How the BJJ GOAT Went 0-2-1 in Just Three Fights

Buchecha's UFC Collapse: How the BJJ GOAT Went 0-2-1 in Just Three Fights

Ryan Spann delivered what might be the final punctuation mark on Alexandre "Buchecha" Ribeiro's mixed martial arts experiment. A left hook and straight right in the second round at UFC Vegas 116 sent the 13-time IBJJF World Champion to the canvas, and he didn't beat the count.
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